SCIENTISTS have unveiled several options to stop 2024 YR4, an asteroid the size of a football pitch from smashing into Earth.

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An asteroid with the power to unleash an explosion one hundred times greater than the atomic bomb has triggered global space ...

Andy Haverly aims to save Earth by using a 1960s project to extract geological materials from the ocean floor.

The NNSA has recently given the public a rare glimpse into one of the secret nuclear labs where America used to test its ...

Intelligence suggests that Iran could produce a crude nuclear device that could act as an immediate deterrent rather than an ...

Some media reports and popular accounts on social media have claimed that Israel detonated a low-yield tactical nuclear ...

Armen Sarkisyan, the founder of a separatist battalion fighting in eastern Ukraine, died after an explosion in an apartment ...